International Student/Teacher Essay Contest, 2016: Nationalism | 08/09/16Is nationalism an asset or hindrance in today's globalized world? Nationalism as used here is a broad term and can be viewed in terms of patriotism, economic nationalism, national identity that holds a diverse country together, nativism, or any other logical way you think fit, as long as you define it clearly.
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Jiyoung Song on Asia and the West: "Whose Century?" | 11/05/15
Jiyoung Song,
Devin T. Stewart
Is this the end of the American Century, the beginning of an Asian Century, or none of the above? Is there a model for the state in Asia? Is there a common set of values? Is there a set of ethics that will be attractive to the rest of the world? These are just some of the questions that Jiyoung Song addresses in this interview on Asia and the West.
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Global Ethics Fall Term 2015 | 09/01/15
David Ritchie
This course examines different ways that the state protects the interests of its citizens against the competing interests of other states. It focuses on arguments about the background moral conceptions that ground the possibility of global justice--cosmopolitanism, liberalism, and universal human rights.
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Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics | 03/02/15
I. Glenn Cohen,
Robert L. Klitzman
Medical tourism is big business, involving millions of patients who travel abroad to get health care. Some travel to avoid queues and save money. Others seek services that are illegal in their own country, such as abortions and surrogate pregnancies. As Cohen explains, this growing industry opens a Pandora's box of legal and ethical questions.
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Politics and Profits of Academia | 01/16/15
Anant Agarwal,
Sidni Mackenzie Frederick,
Jason Lane,
Julia Taylor Kennedy
Even if universities are not for profit, budgets loom large in higher education--and global markets hold revenue potential. In this episode, we look at three ways universities are involved in global markets and how this can create ethical considerations and unintended consequences.
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Was World War I Inevitable? | 09/03/14
Margaret MacMillan
We're still trying to understand what World War I meant. It is a very complex event, one that has echoes into the present, and we've all been thinking recently about parallels between that world and our own world. One of the very important things is not to start by assuming that it was inevitable.
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